If you're building WordPress themes or plugins and want to stay consistent with the official design language, this pulls in the actual design tokens, typography scales, and component patterns that WordPress itself uses. It's curated directly from the WordPress development team's repository, so you're working with the same primitives as Gutenberg and the admin interface. Most useful when you're trying to make your custom work feel native to WordPress rather than bolted on. The Open Design integration means Claude can reference these patterns during planning, though you'll want to pull the upstream bundle for the full asset library and implementation examples.
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Install
$ npx -y skills add nexu-io/open-design --skill wpds --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
wpds
Curated from the WordPress development team.
What it does
WordPress Design System. Apply WordPress's official design tokens, typography, and component patterns to themes and sites.
Source
- Upstream: https://github.com/WordPress/skills
- Category:
design-systems
How to use
This catalogue entry advertises the skill in OpenDesign so the agent discovers it during planning. To run the full upstream workflow with its original assets, scripts, and references, install the upstream bundle into your active agent's skills directory:
# Inspect the upstream README for exact paths
open https://github.com/WordPress/skills
Then ask the agent to invoke this skill by name (wpds) or with
one of the trigger phrases listed in this skill's frontmatter.
Sponsors
Details
- Repository
- github.com/nexu-io/open-design
- Categories
- Frontend Development, Design & UI/UX, PHP & Laravel
- First seen
- Jun 3, 2026
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